Frank Furedi

Sociologist, commentator and author of Culture of Fear, Where Have All The Intellectuals Gone?, Paranoid Parenting, Therapy Culture, and On Tolerance: In Defence of Moral Independence.
 
       
 

The Battle for Truth
The debate about truth should not be confused with the conflict between religion and science.

At the London Battle of Ideas, 1-2 November 2008, Frank Furedi debated the Battle for Truth with Professor Colin Blakemore, professor of neuroscience at the universities of Oxford and Warwick; Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason; and Professor David Jones, author of Approaching the End: a theological exploration of death and dying.

Watch the debate on Fora TV here

First published by Fora TV, 14 November 2008